British police have launched an investigation into whether the Guardian committed “potential” terrorism offenses by publishing the incriminating NSA and GCHQ documents leaked earlier this year by Edward Snowden.
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UK officials claim that Snowden’s trove of data included information about British spies and that the information’s publication puts lives in direct danger. Rusbridger said his paper would not publish any such information and that Guardian editors have not even looked at some of the information Snowden provided regarding the Iraq war.
Lawmakers also threatened Rusbridger by implying Guardian staff had violated Section 58A of the Terrorism Act, which stipulates that it is against the law to publish or even transmit any information regarding members of the armed forces or intelligence employees.
RT
This is actually what is very chilling, at least it certainly can be on newspapers and it is. If lawyers are worried that newspapers will be given massive fines for telling the truth about these matters then this really ties up the paper and they will actually avoid doing those stories. The interest here is making sure the public realize just what an enormous intelligence gathering operation is being created here. Let’s remember what they’re doing. They’re collecting our passwords for example, our bank passwords, and what I’d like to see in front of this committee is the people from GCHQ, the nameless anonymous spooks who have actually been breaking the law by hacking into our personal lives.
Tony Gosling
Well, if it were only a laughingstock, that wouldn't be so worrisome.
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